Month: February 2022
Navalny Condemns Russian Aggression
“The war with Ukraine has been unleashed to cover up the robbery of Russian citizens and divert their attention away from the country’s internal problems, from the degradation of its economy.”
— “Aleksei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition politician, used a court hearing on Thursday to condemn President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine,” the New York Times reports.
Russian War in Ukraine Not All on the Battlefield
“The biggest problem for Ukraine and its allies is that Russia knows this battlespace well — and undoubtedly has been recruiting a network of Ukrainian double agents. These agents can sow havoc for a resistance movement by revealing its leaders, safe houses, communications and plans of attack…. And it gets worse: A trademark of Russian intelligence, for a century, has been its ability to manipulate resistance groups in Ukraine and elsewhere so that they were actually controlled by the Kremlin.”
— David Ignatius
Florida GOP Candidate Berates Cop on Video
“Is it your Russian immigrant status that makes you treat people like this?”
— Martin Hyde (R), who is running in Florida’s 16th congressional district, was caught on police body camera threatening to end an officer’s career because she pulled him over for a traffic stop.
Rather Warns of Home-Grown Quislings
“Beware of the armchair generals… it is easier to opine when you are not on the battlefield and the acuity of your predictions will not be measured in lives lost. But there is something else this time around, something new that I have never seen before on the scale we are witnessing. There are many in this nation, cheered on by powerful media voices, who seem more aligned with a dangerous foe to America and a peaceful world order than they are with our own leadership. Our divisions are a weakness that our enemies eagerly exploit. Whether willingly or not, we do their bidding with our bickering. To reduce the world order to shortsighted political calculations is to undermine our own national security.”
— Dan Rather, Steady Blog
The Future of Republicanism Is … Rick Scott??
Rick Scott, the first-term senator from Florida who is best known on Capitol Hill for filing dumb bills that waste the august body’s time and energy, has, in the absence of an agenda for the GOP, provided one.
And, of course, it’s a doozy:
Senate Republican leaders have no plans to release an alternative agenda as they try to win back the majority this fall. So Rick Scott is pursuing his own plan.
The Florida Republican senator is devising a conservative blueprint for Republicans to enact should they win Senate and House majorities this fall. Among Scott’s priorities: completing the border wall and naming it after former President Donald Trump, declaring “there are two genders,” ending any reference to ethnicity on government forms and limiting most federal government workers — including members of Congress — to 12 years of service.
Hey, I don’t mind naming the wall after Trump — he deserves it — but everything else is unadulterated hooey.
Read the rest at Politico.
